Julie Chibbaro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1965
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Julie Chibbaro
- Julie Chibbaro is the award-winning author of three books: Into the Dangerous World (Viking, 2015), a novel about a girl artist on the NY streets in 1984, Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011, Scholastic 2012), a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary in 1906, and Redemption (S&S 2004) a historical novel about a girl's unintended trip to the New World in 1524.
- All three novels received stellar reviews.
- Into the Dangerous World is a Junior Library Guild Selection.
- Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list.
- It was named a Bank Street Best Book, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association and is now part of many schools’ curriculum.
- Redemption (Simon & Schuster 2004), an epic tale of love, kidnapping, and white Indians, won the 2005 American Book Award. Julie has appeared on author panels throughout the country.
- She teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop, in Manhattan, and at Botsford Arts, in Beacon, NY.
- She has written for The Prague Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hudson Valley Magazine, NY States of Mind, Books in Canada, SundanceTV, Tuttle Publishing, and many other venues.
- She studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish.
- She received scholarships to study with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers Workshop, and with Janet Fitch and Amy Tan at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
- At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie.
- She is represented by the agent Jill Grinberg.
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